Thought yuo guys might be interested in this little review I wrote for my film class. We had to pick a movie that came out in the last 6 months...guess what I picked?
Film Review -The Incredibles
Release Date: Nov. 5th, 2004
Do you ever wonder if your family is the only one that has its problems? The Incredibles shows us that even superheroes have family problems. The Incredibles is about a “regular” family, with its own deep, dark secret: They’re all superheroes!
The patriarch of the family is middle-aged Bob Parr (alias: Mr. Incredible), who, due to legal problems is in the Superhero Relocation Program. He and his wife, Helen Parr (alias: Elastigirl) are trying to raise their family, comprised of oldest daughter Violet, middle son Dashiell (Dash), and young Jack-Jack.
Being that this is a movie about superheroes, there is obviously some level of world saving, superhero goodness herein. However, that is not all that this movie is about. This movie has a lot to do with becoming and working together as collective family unit. For example, near the beginning, the Parrs are at dinner, and Violet tells her mother that she is not hungry. This induces a smart alecky, little brother comment from Dash. Then, they start fighting. Dash starts running around at super speed, and Violet throws up a force field. This causes Helen to intervene, using her elastic like body to separate the two kids. She then yells at Bob to intervene, and he uses his super strength to lift up the table with all three family members in tow. Sounds like a normal family dinner at your house, right (minus the super powers, of course)?
The characters in this movie are well-defined and easy to relate to. Bob is the father, who wishes he was young and is still basking in former glory. Oh, yeah, he has super strength, too. Helen is the mom who has so many roles to fill and has to be really flexible, hence her power of elasticity. Dash is your typical 10 year old, full of energy, mischief, and showboating as well as fiercely competitive. He is so competitive, in fact that he is not allowed to go out for sports for fear that he might use his power (super speed) and expose his family to be super. Violet is a shy middle schooler (Writer’s opinion: She is in about the 9th grade), a loner type who is invisible to the popular kids, and that’s one of her powers (invisibility) coupled with the power to produce force fields.
Did I forget to mention that this is an animated film? I must have forgotten myself! The Incredibles is a fully computer animated film. The locales and details in the movie are so lush and extensive that you can forget (as I have many times) that you are actually watching an animated film as opposed to a live action one.
The main theme of the movie is that the group is stronger than just the individual. Every member of the family has to use their particular power in order to reach their ultimate goal, and by the end, they have learned to love, trust, and respect one another.
The main problem with this movie is the plot. It’s nothing really new or innovative, as this is the same basic plot that every superhero movie has. After you’re introduced to the main villain, they want to take over the world. So, it’s the supers’ job to stop that from happening. Villain puts up obstacles, superhero (es) overcome obstacles, villain loses in the end. It’s not a BAD plot; it’s just…old and tired and probably should be euthanized.
This movie is a film by Pixar, which have also made Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. All of these films are superb, and if you haven’t seen them, I recommend that you do so.
All in all, The Incredibles is an (pardon the pun) incredible film. I hope you decide to go see this movie. It could possibly be the best animated film made since The Lion King. Don’t miss out on the most fun you’ll have all year!
(i'm gonna get the PAL version, but Amazing Babe has the NTSC one 
) but I agree with dvdjunkie i'm sure that for many people the DVD looks as good or even better than many theatrical presentations, with it's DDD transfer specially on a great system. (at least much better than the showing i saw which was so out of focus and the Scope lens so out of alignment it looked blurrier and fuzzier than the screncaps from a dvd screener a nice UD member sent me then 
and that made me rennounce to going to theaters again) (unless of course Amazing Babe comes with me or some Evil Genie casts a spell or sumthin' 
(Is that diagonal or wide? No matter, that's my kind of screen! 
) Must look, well, Incredible! 
(just kidding!